NATURAL RESOURCES AS A COMPONENT OF GEOGRAPHIC RESEARCHES FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF INCLUSIVE TOURISM IN UKRAINE

Abstract

The article highlights the problem of the development of inclusive tourism in Ukraine as a geographical area, taking into account the natural resource potential and recreational and tourist resources of the country. The proposed structural model of the main types of recreational and tourist resources, the structure of the natural resource potential of Ukraine, as well as a block diagram of recreational and tourist resources as a component of inclusive rehabilitation and social tourism (ETIM).The connection of existing types of rehabilitation, corresponding to modern trends in the development of society, with a variety of natural-recreational and tourist potential, which allows for the development of a unified state system of medical and social protection in the framework of maintaining the physical and psychological health of the population in Ukraine, including people with disabilities.

One of the most studied components of rehabilitation is the recreational and tourist resources of Ukraine as objects and phenomena of natural, natural-anthropogenic, socio-economic origin used for tourism, treatment, rehabilitation and affect the territorial organization of recreational activities, the formation of recreational areas (centers, zones) their specialization and economic efficiency.

The natural resource potential in this article is considered as a combination of all the possibilities, funds, reserves, sources that can be mobilized, used to achieve a certain goal. Over the past years, the state has achieved significant success in the study of natural resources: factual information has been collected on the volumes, location and characteristics of individual species and deposits, the experience of economic use has been summarized, and the laws of territorial organizations have been studied. However, the methodological and methodological problems of the economic assessment of natural resources were not solved in full.

It is very important that “inclusive tourism”, as a type of rehabilitation, qualifies as travel, subsidized by the state from the funds allocated for the social needs of people with disabilities.